Genre Ranking
Search
Get the APP HOT
Great Inventions and Discoveries
img img Great Inventions and Discoveries img Chapter 13 THE FRICTION MATCH
13 Chapters
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 THE PRINTING PRESS
Chapter 3 THE STEAM ENGINE
Chapter 4 ELECTRICITY THE TELEGRAPH AND THE TELEPHONE
Chapter 5 ELECTRICITY LIGHTING, TRANSPORTATION, AND OTHER USES
Chapter 6 THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
Chapter 7 WEAPONS AND GUNPOWDER
Chapter 8 ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
Chapter 9 THE COTTON-GIN
Chapter 10 AN STHETICS
Chapter 11 STEEL AND RUBBER
Chapter 12 STENOGRAPHY AND THE TYPEWRITER
Chapter 13 THE FRICTION MATCH
Chapter 14 PHOTOGRAPHY
Chapter 15 CLOCKS
Chapter 16 SOME MACHINES
Chapter 17 AERONAUTICS
img
  /  1
img

Chapter 13 THE FRICTION MATCH

The biggest things are not always the most important. A little article, used many times in the course of every day and familiar to every person, is one of the world's great inventions. It is the friction match.

Fire is one of man's absolute necessities. Without it civilization would have been impossible, and life could scarcely continue. The sto

Previous
            
Next
            
Download Book

You might like

Between the Lines.

Literature
5.0

The 2010 CIA World Factbook

Literature
5.0

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Literature
5.0

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Literature
5.0

The Motor Girls

Literature
5.0

The Moorland Cottage

Literature
5.0

COPYRIGHT(©) 2022